2026 School Health Workshop – February 2, 2026
Our next School Health Workshop will take place February 2, 2026. We align our date with the Olde English Consortium Professional Development Day. Below is the final agenda. Registration and credit card payment is now live on Event Brite. If paying by check, you can use this form.
8:00 a.m. Registration & light breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and acknowledgement of sponsor, Chester Healthcare Foundation
8:35 a.m. Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention
Karilyn Tremblay, MPH
Injury Prevention and Aging Programs Director
SC Department of Public Health
9:30 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. Measles and Pertussis
Anna-Kathryn Burch, MD
Division Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Prisma Health Children’s Hospital – Midlands
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. NAMI 101 / NAMI On Campus
Drew Carpenter, Outreach Coordinator York County, NAMI
and
Terrance Randolph, Outreach Coordinator Chester County, NAMI
12:00 p.m. Lunch served
1:00 p.m. Mental Health: Helping Students Cope with Anxiety
Joan DuBose, PhD, LPCS, LCMHCS, LPC, LAC, MAC, AADC, TF-CBT
Clinical Director
All is Well Counseling and Consulting Services, LLC
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Motivational Interviewing
Lauren Thomas, MPH, MCHES, NBC-HWC
Instructor of Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior
USC Lancaster
3:15 p.m. Wrap Up and Evaluations
3:30 p.m. Adjourn
If you have questions, please call 803-377-8026 or email knichols (at) umrhn.org.
We would like to thank the Chester Healthcare Foundation and Mid-Carolina AHEC for their continued support of our program!
Credit Statements for this activity:
AHEC:This program is approved for 0.5 CEU’s (5.0 clock hours) of continuing education by Mid-Carolina AHEC, Inc. and meets the SC AHEC Continuing Education Best Practice Standards. Participants must attend 90% of the program to receive a certificate of attendance. No partial credit will be given.
COUNSELORS & THERAPISTS: This program has been pre-approved for 5.0 hours of continuing education by SC AHEC under its accreditation by the SC Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists.
NURSING:Mid-Carolina AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This nursing continuing education activity approval # 2408-010PR-163 has been approved for 5.0 hours.
SOCIAL WORKERS: This program has been approved by the SC Board of Social Work Examiners for 5.0 clock hours of NON-social work continuing education.